Fantasy and Science Fiction

Mail order bride, Carin Tully, arrived on the frontier planet, Palomar, hoping for a better life–with her new husband Gabe Cooper. Like all the guys on Palomar, he hadn’t seen a woman for fifteen years–since the plague that had sent men and their sons fleeing to this outpost on the edge of civilization. Carin wants to seduce Gabe and prove she’s up to the job of farm wife, but she’s hiding a secret that could destroy their marriage before it has a chance to succeed.

Jack Younger agrees to risk his life when he takes on a dangerous undercover assignment. He doesn’t count on his old love, Sophia DeAngelo, ending up in the middle of the action. What if he has to choose between fulfilling his mission and saving her life?

Marooned on a harsh planet, colonists from Earth try to make a life for themselves. When radiation renders the human males sterile, the colony’s elders hatch a plot to marry some of their young women to the fierce native men.

Elena finds passionate love with Rohan, her new husband. But can their relationship survive the duplicity of the settlement’s ruling faction?

I’ve been a Star Trek fan from the beginning, and that fierce and sexy Klingon warrior, Worf, was the inspiration for the hero of this story.

When all-male plague survivors landed on the planet Palomar, no one knew if humans could thrive in the hostile environment. Now it’s twenty years later, and the planetary authority has finally authorized a shipment of brides. Homesteader Caleb Raider has won a wife in the lottery, but he hasn’t seen a woman since childhood–except in a porn vid. His new wife, Beka Gunnarson, knows he’s a virgin. What’s the best way to introduce him to the pleasures of married love, while hiding the secret she thinks will destroy their new relationship? And is she up to living on a nearly lawless planet where savage wildlife roams?

They were friends as children, she from the master race, he born to servants on her father’s estate. But in the bloody rebellion that followed, his people were the victors. Now he’s home, reaping the spoils of war. But both of them have been chewed up and spit out by what happened to them in the conflict. Can they heal each other’s wounds and find the love both of them have always craved?

Desperate Magic is the third novella in the Chronicles of Arandal series. Trapped in Valleyhold, Willow is getting frightening telepathic messages from her sister, Rowan, who escaped with Prince Grantland. Now Willow knows something is terribly wrong with her sister, and when a dragon offers to help her escape from captivity among her own people, she accepts his help. When she awakens, after breaking through the force field that surrounds Valleyhold, a handsome young man tells her he chased the dragon away. He volunteers to go with her to Arandal. She’s attracted to him, but as they travel together, she begins to wonder if he’s been lying to her. Finally she escapes from him, but there’s no escape from the bond the two of them have forged or the terrible fate that awaits her in Arandal.

“Shattered Magic” continues the Chronicles of Arandal begun in “Dark Magic.” After Rowan’s people were persecuted as witches by soldiers from Arandal and fled to a mountain refuge, they lived in peace for 100 years. Until an evil magician named Telman gained the confidence of the village elders and claimed Rowan for his bride. When she runs from her fate, she meets a handsome young man who could be the solution to her problem. If she seduces him, she’ll make herself unfit to wed Telman. After she and Grant make love, she finds he’s really Prince Grantland from Arandal. And when he discovers her psychic powers, he thinks she’s a witch. Will he kill her or join forces with her to defeat a common enemy? And can they trust each other enough to kindle the magic they found in each other’s arms?

An ancient struggle between two powerful forces erupts into an explosive confrontation in modern times.

In the first century BC, the Ionian Priestesses (rivals to the Oracle at Delphi) made a dangerous bargain with a group of cursed warriors called the Minot. In return for saving them from a barbarian invasion, the women took the Minot as consorts, but the uneasy truce disintegrated when the warriors tried to dominate their partners.

Centuries later, the women hide their true identity from the world and run the Seven Sisters Spa in Sedona, Arizona. Still mistrusting men, they ruthlessly use them for procreation but never marry.

Only if Jason and Sophia dare to form a strong psychic bond can they save themselves and the Ionians from destruction. Or will the women discover Jason’s true identity and rip out his psychic powers first?

Marrying her father’s barbaric enemy for political gain is not the future that Princess Devon imagines for herself. She prefers escaping into the world of magic and legend described in books—books that suggest just how a princess could take the safety of a kingdom into her own hands.

When Devon awakens one night to find the mysterious Galladar in her chamber, the lines between myth and reality begin to blur. Before he disappears into the night, the two share an intimate encounter that leaves her determined to follow her heart.

Devon leaves the castle on a quest to find the mythical dragon who can free her kingdom forever and release her from her father’s plan. She’s prepared to do whatever it takes to make her future her own. However, when she finds Galladar again, will she be forced to choose between her kingdom and her happiness?

An ancient struggle between two powerful forces erupts into an explosive confrontation in modern times.

In the first century BC, the Ionian Priestesses (rivals to the Oracle at Delphi) made a dangerous bargain with a group of cursed warriors called the Minot. In return for saving them from a barbarian invasion, the women took the Minot as consorts, but the uneasy truce disintegrated when the warriors tried to dominate their partners.

Centuries later, the women hide their true identity from the world and run the Seven Sisters Spa in Sedona, Arizona. Still mistrusting men, they ruthlessly use them for procreation but never marry.

Only if Jason and Sophia dare to form a strong psychic bond can they save themselves and the Ionians from destruction. Or will the women discover Jason’s true identity and rip out his psychic powers first?

An ancient struggle between two powerful forces erupts into an explosive confrontation in modern times.

In the first century BC, the Ionian Priestesses (rivals to the Oracle at Delphi) made a dangerous bargain with a group of cursed warriors called the Minot. In return for saving them from a barbarian invasion, the women took the Minot as consorts, but the uneasy truce disintegrated when the warriors tried to dominate their partners.

Centuries later, the women hide their true identity from the world and run the Seven Sisters Spa in Sedona, Arizona. Still mistrusting men, they ruthlessly use them for procreation but never marry.

Only if Jason and Sophia dare to form a strong psychic bond can they save themselves and the Ionians from destruction. Or will the women discover Jason’s true identity and rip out his psychic powers first?

I first wrote about Ramsay Gallagher in Dragon Moon. I was so fascinated with him, that I wanted to give him his own story. He’s the hero of Day of the Dragon, which I hope is the start of a new series.

The search for clues to an ancient civilization sends Ramsay to an archaeology conference in Las Vegas where he meets Dr. Madison Dartmoor. Her current dig in Italy has put her in mortal danger, and when Ramsay saves her from thugs bent on stealing a copy of a startling artifact, the two of them team up to unearth the secrets of an ancient civilization. As their relationship heats up, Ramsay guards his own secrets that may tear him and Madison apart or save their lives.

Shelley Young comes to Matt Whitlock to beg for his help. The son Matt never knew he’d fathered has been kidnapped, and Shelley thinks Matt is the only person who can help her find four-year-old Trevor. Years ago, Matt himself was kidnapped, and the terrible memories of what happened to him are locked up deep in his mind. But he knows one thing–he came back home with a unique paranormal power. Can it help him and Shelley find Trevor? And can they elude the bad guys bent on stopping them?

The first book in the Return to Jenkins Cove mini-series. It starts one foggy night when Chelsea Caldwell is driving home and thinks she sees a young woman lying on the road. Then the woman vanishes. But her body turns up later. Local newspaper accounts of the incident bring investigative reporter Michael Bryant to Jenkins Cove. Michael thinks Chelsea is spinning a ghost story to make herself look important. Then a series of frightening incidents convince him that dark spirits haunt the isolated town on Maryland’s Eastern Shore–and that someone desperate to hide a terrible secret will stop at nothing to eliminate him and Chelsea.

Christmas Awakening, by Ann Voss Peterson, follows in November. And Christmas Delivery, by Patricia Rosemoor, follows in December. Click here to see more about the Holiday Mystery Series at Jenkins Cove.

Anna Ridgeway’s mind-reading nightclub act takes her to the Caribbean Island of Grand Fernandino. She knows she’s being stalked by sinister forces. But she doesn’t realize that her destiny hangs in the balance when she meets diver Zachary Robinson. Zach and Anna are inexplicably and powerfully drawn to each other–sexually and psychically. As the physical intimacy between them deepens, so do their psi talents. But island shaman, Raoul San Donato, has plans of his own for Anna. Already a powerful force on Grand Fernandino, he plans to kill Zach and bind Anna to him in a shocking ceremony that will make her his consort and consolidate his hold over the island.

the first book in the Security Breach miniseries, starts with a bang–an explosion in Lab 7 at a company called Cranesbrook. Gage Darnell is caught in the lab accident. When he wakes up in Beech Grove, a private mental hospital, he tries to figure out why he’s being held captive and why nobody will give him any information. Escape seems to be his only option, but once he breaks out, he’s in even deeper trouble. And the worst part is that he drags his estranged wife, Lily, into danger with him.

The story is set in two of my favorite locales–Maryland’s picturesque Eastern Shore and the Baltimore area.

This is my first story of sexually linked telepaths whose powers develop when they meet one of their own kind. They feel compelled to touch each other, and the more physically intimate they become, the deeper their psychic bond. So the sensuality simmering between them is tied to their awakening powers.

Jordan Walker and Lindsay Fleming are the products of a genetics experiment gone wrong. When they begin investigating a murder at a secret government installation, they draw the attention of Kurt MacArthur, the head of a quasi-government agency who discovers their heritage and begins tracking them down. Can Jordan and Lindsay escape from MacArthur–and escape from another pair of bonded telepaths bent on killing them before they can develop their powers?

This is a story where I take strong advantage of the DC milieu. Lindsay is a staffer in a Senate office. Jordan is an investigative reporter who writes Bob Woodward-type exposés. I had fun setting a couple of scenes in the Bishop’s Garden at the National Cathedral and also Oak Hill Cemetery in Georgetown.

Anyone interested in the ancient history of my fiction writing can learn about the romances and children’s fiction I wrote, primarily in the 1980’s, by clicking on the covers below: